R9798
£650
Description
A Chinese export porcelain grisaille saucer painted in the centre with a sleeping man next to another man with shield and spear in a landscape scene, with Aphrodite and her son, Eros, pointing a bow and arrow at the men below in a chariot in the clouds drawn by two doves, all encircled by a iron-red and gilt decorative border.
11.6cm diameter, 2cm high.
Qianlong, 1736-1795.
Condition
Available on request.
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